Core ZebraTester V7.0-A Documentation

Release Notes (V7.0-A)

• New Functions and Features

• Upgrade Instructions

• Compatibility with earlier versions

User Guide

• An abridged version of this User Guide is available online.

• Menu and Navigation Overview

• Recording Web Sessions

• Editing Web Sessions

• Adding Loops

• Adding Custom Performance Metrics

• Parameterization and Variables

• Playing back recorded Web Sessions.

• Generating Load Test Sessions

• Executing Load Test Programs

• Analyzing Results

• Distributed Load Tests

• More!

Apica Table Server (ATS)

• Powered by ZebraTester as a web application.

  • Separate port from ZebraTester Main Menu.

• Serves multiple data tables.

• Enables data-sharing across virtual users during the execution.

  • Avoids supplying the data with input files as part of the script.

• ZebraTester has new inline functions for retrieving data from or feeding data to ATS.

Application Reference Manual

• ZebraTester architecture.

• Detailed descriptions for all ZebraTester programs.

  • Installing ZebraTester on Unix-like systems

• Scripting load test programs.

• Supported time zones.

• ZebraTester configuration files list.

Handling of Dynamically Exchanged Session Parameters

• How to handle dynamically-exchanged session parameters

• Configuring Variables in the ZebraTester GUI.

• Finding Variables

• Extracting Values from Variables

• Assigning Values to Variables

• Variable Parameterization

• Variable Rules

• How the Variable Extractor Wizard works

Inline Script Manual

• For those who write inline scripts for ZebraTester.

• Apica developed the Prx BASIC programming language for the Inline Scripts within ZebraTester.

• Syntax

• Integrated Functions

• Methods

  • ZebraTester

  • Apica Table Server (ATS)

• Error Handlers

LoadTest Plug-in Handbook

• ZebraTester Load Test Plug-Ins

  • Properties, Runtime Behavior, and Configuration

  • Development